Summary: We will learn of the Holy Spirit role in helping us to pray as we are expected to.

Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and the supreme call for all Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people everywhere to pray. Believing that prayer is the greatest contribution that our people can make in this critical hour, I humbly urge that we take time to pray--to really pray. Let there be prayer at sunup, at noonday, at sundown, at midnight--all through the day. Let us all pray for our children, our youth, our aged, our pastors, our homes. Let us pray for our churches. Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word ’concern’ out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

Robert E. Lee.

When we pray, remember:

1. The love of God that wants the best for us.

2. The wisdom of God that knows what is best for us.

3. The power of God that can accomplish it.

William Barclay, Prodigals and Those Who Love.

His Identity and Indispensability

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered [Rom. 8:26].

It is the fervent prayer of saints, God’s word and the Holy Spirit that delivers and saves a man.

As the you and I face the certain trials of this life we has the greatest resource imaginable: prayer.

Do you see this as the great resource it truly is?

We are given the right to approach God whenever needed, and to ask God for the strength to walk through and to conquer the suffering. That is what prayer is all about.

Significant things can be said about prayer.

Believers do not know what we should pray for as we should. You see Paul includes himself in this, which is to say no believer knows how to pray because we do not know the perfect will of God for us. By our very nature we are weak, lacking the power...

• for prolonged concentration.

• to avoid distractions.

• to stop all wandering thoughts.

• to prevent emotional changes.

• to govern varying affections.

• to know what lies in the future, even one hour from now.

• to know what is really best for us and our growth in any given situation.

The Holy Spirit helps our infirmities as we pray. Christian you are expected to pray. This passage assumes that we are praying.

The Spirit is not going to force us to pray. It is our responsibility to pray: to take the time to get alone and pray. When we do this the Spirit begins to act both upon and for us.

Are you praying in the manner you should?

The Spirit “helpeth our infirmities.” Whatever our particular weakness is, it is that weakness which HE helps.

HE helps us control concentration, distractions, wandering thoughts, emotional changes, and affections. How? As we struggle to pray by controlling our flesh and its weakness, the Holy Spirit takes our mind and emotions and...